Business Planet travels to Gothenburg, Sweden to see how one firm’s cutting edge technology is powering Europe’s growing hydrogen economy.
Business Planet went to Latvia to see how the country's biggest household chemical and cosmetics maker is profiting thanks to its eco-minded strategy.
Yesterday evening, during the yearly SME Assembly, the European Commission unveiled the winners of the 2019 European Enterprise Promotion Awards, rewarding bodies promoting entrepreneurship and small businesses at national, regional and local level.
Early warning schemes help companies prevent insolvency and are accessible to all businesses throughout the EU. More than 3,300 companies from 4 EU countries were already supported by the Early Warning Europe project. This COSME co-funded project presented the results at its final conference in Brussels on 14 November.
SMEs and organisations received awards in 5 categories at the 7th European Small and Mid-Cap Awards held in Brussels on 12 November 2019. The awards promote best practices and highlight the best European small and mid-sized companies that accessed capital markets via an initial public offering (IPO). They showcase the diversity of European markets and aim at promoting stock listings, targeting SMEs and growth companies.
EU Open for business is hosting the last info day this year on 16 October in Stuttgart, Germany. Kristin Schreiber, Director for SME policy and the COSME programme at the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs and Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, Ministry of Economy, Labour and Housing of the state of Baden-Württemberg will open the event. It welcomes more than 80 regional stakeholders (chambers of commerce, banks, local authorities, business development agencies, research institutes etc).
This conference will take place on 15 October 2019 at the Sofitel Europe hotel in Brussels. The event will bring together over 200 experts from industry, trade unions, education and training organisations, governments and small business associations from across Europe.
Europe needs to deepen its innovation capability to compete on global markets and maintain and improve the European way of life, as called for by the European Council as recently as June 2018 and March 2019. That is why the Juncker Commission has set a new level of ambition for the EU and its Eu countries and regions, and proposed horizon Europe, the most ambitious research and innovation programme ever. This will keep the EU at the forefront of global research and innovation.
On 13 June, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Development (METI) and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Industry and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are hosting a seminar on the implementation of international expectations on responsible business conduct (RBC) and corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Save the date for the 6th edition of the European Cluster Conference that will take place in Bucharest, Romania, from 14 to 16 May. It will bring together 400 cluster policy-makers, cluster managers, practitioners and other stakeholders.
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs is pleased to announce that registration for the European Cluster Conference 2019 is open. The event takes place on 14-16 May 2019 at the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest under the Romanian EU Presidency. 400 places, free of charge, are up for grabs for cluster policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders.
Simplification of administrative procedures remains high on the EU political agenda. The Commission monitors progress by all EU countries in simplifying start-up procedures and reducing the time and cost of registering a company.
The European Commission organised a Showcase Conference on Tourism that took place in Brussels on 19 March 2019.
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs (EYE) programme, two participating entrepreneurs have been awarded the title of 'Entrepreneur of the Decade' at an event that took place yesterday in Brussels. Nelly Davtyan from Armenia was selected as the 'new entrepreneur of the decade' and Ioannis Polychronakis from Greece was selected as the 'host entrepreneur of the decade.'
The European Commission is inviting comments from all interested stakeholder groups on potential areas for regulatory co-operation with the United States.
On 15 November 2018, 18 representatives of 15 EU countries met to discuss how clusters and regional and local ecosystems can accelerate entrepreneurship, industrial modernisation and growth and what policies can do to support this process and connections between them.
Innovation is one of the most powerful ways to create jobs and drive economic growth. Business Planet goes to Croatia to visit Rimac Automobili - a company winning plaudits for its electric sports cars and groundbreaking technologies.
Business Planet takes a look at the business opportunities being created by eCall. This new EU-wide emergency alert system is using Europe's Galileo and EGNOS satellite services to cut the time it takes rescue crews to get to road traffic accidents.
The winners of the 6th edition of 6th edition of the Small and Mid-cap Awards were announced on 4 December.
